Wednesday 23 September: Begin in class 1.1, read first explore the opening, then watch opening in Branagh's Hamlet for comparison/contrast Thursday 24 September: Reading 2 (see reading list below) in class Friday 25 September: No class; half day Here are the Hamlet SQs. Monday 28 September: Reading 2 due, along with one SQ Tuesday 29 September: Word of Advice In-Class Writing (no prep other than Reading 2) Wednesday 30 September: Hamlet Reading 3 due; here is 2.2 from Digital Theatre Plus (login using information in the materials for the class in Jupiter, use buttons to get to 2.2; if needed, the scene begins at 43:00); read over SQs to be ready for seminar Thursday 1 October: Hamlet Reading 4; read over SQs Friday 2 October: Hamlet Reading in class Monday 5 October: Hamlet reading 5 due; read over SQs to be ready for seminar; Vocabulary assigned; Soliloquy recitation assigned Tuesday 6 October: Vocabulary (one word) due to Discussion Forum before class; Hamlet Reading 6 due; look over SQs Wednesday 7 October: Vocabulary discussion Thursday 8 October: Hamlet Reading 7 due; Soliloquy Close Reading in class Friday 9 October: Act IV Activity (long quotation) in class; Hamlet Reading 8 due Monday 12 October: No class; Columbus Day Tuesday 13 October: Hamlet 10 to 1; Hamlet review Wednesday 14 October: SAT day; no classes--college counseling day for anyone not taking the SAT Thursday 15 October: C&P revisions/expansions due; more Hamlet review (requests from study questions and work with quotations) Friday 16 October: No class; festival for OLOR Monday 19 October: Hamlet test, receive "Hamlet and His Problems" Tuesday 20 October: Soliloquy recitation due Wednesday 21 October: Begin Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in class, up to p. 17 (entrance of Player) Thursday 22 October: "Hamlet and His Problems" due; Choose a Hamlet paper topic Friday 23 October: Hamlet vocab quiz; we will read R&G in class while you write at home Do you have the stamp for your college essay? Be sure to meet soon enough that you have time to revise and meet again! Monday 26 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Tuesday 27 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Wednesday 28 October: Work on Hamlet writing at home; read forward in class in R&G Thursday 29 October: No class; Half day; College essay hot seat closes (College counseling day) Friday 30 October: No school Monday 2 November: No class; Halloween Festival; Hot seat opens for Hamlet writing; closes November 9; paper due Tuesday, November 10 Tuesday 3 November: Discussion of themes and ideas: R&G Wednesday 4 November: In-class writing: R&G; College essay collected Hamlet Readings Reading 1: 1.1 Reading 2: 1.2–1.3 Reading 3: 1.4–2.1 Reading 4: 2.2 Reading 5: 3.1–3.2 Reading 6: 3.3–3.4 Reading 7: 4.1–4.7 Reading 8: 5.1–5.2 Readings become longer as we go; once you are oriented, you can read more in a sitting. Thursday, September 3: Welcome, policies, poem practice; please bring your 5 Steps to a 5 everyday for the warm-up; sign up to recite poem; seniors' college essay draft due
Friday, September 4: No class, Welcome Assembly Monday, September 7: No school, Labor Day Tuesday, September 8: Begin daily warm-up in 5 Steps to a 5; Plagiarism policy review; College essays returned; Poem discussion; HW: Annotate poem Wednesday, September 9: Intro to the AP poetry essay; Exam overview; Poetry essay sample prompts; Prep poetry essay Thursday, September 10: In-class writing: Excerpt from Little Gidding; refresh Crime and Punishment reading Friday, September 11: Crime and Punishment quiz; seminar 1: major themes/characterization; sign up for SQs in class To produce the SQs: In class, you will choose your three questions to work on. (Remote students will send me their top 5, so that I can eliminate overlap.) Then, over the next week and a half, you will produce the half-page responses to the questions. All three answers, though, will be developed into 5-paragraph essays (intended to be outlined in 30 minutes, using your original response as a starting place, and written in 40), so the more you produce upfront, the more you are helping yourself later. At the end of the quarter, you will choose one of the 5-paragraph essays to refine and polish further. Monday, September 14: See this handout for an overview of the C&P assignments; seminar #2: themes/characterization Tuesday, September 15: SQ #1 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Wednesday, September 16: deepening the SQs Thursday, September 17: SQ #2 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Friday, September 18: seminar #3: setting/psychogeography of the novel Monday, September 21: SQ #3 (one-half page) due; mini-presentation Tuesday, September 22: C&P reflections--what is the novel's genre? what is the novel about?--and wrap-up (epilogue to the epilogue exercise) |